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of classifications of the sciences are classifications
of possible sciences, which are certainly
not natural objects. What is a science,
as a natural object? It is the actual living
occupation of an actual group of living men.
It is in that sense only that I presume to attempt
any classification of the sciences. A very considerable
proportion of all the so called classifications
of the sciences are classifications of
scientia, or ἐπιστήμαι, in the ancient
sense of perfect knowledge. Others are
classifications of not of sciences but of the
objects of systematic knowledge.
But what I mean by a "science,"
both for the purpose of this classification &
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